My current location is 5308 AFRAID ANUS. Might be best to exclude ANUS from the word list.
My Street is "BASTARD BOX" Jee, thanks.
Are you kidding? I'd love to have my address be BASTARD BOX. So apropos.
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#42First, you have to teach long division and long multiplication to your 7B people. Like the concept and idea and truly hope for adoption.
Is it possible to reduce to addition and subtraction? I feel that multiplication and division is a high barrier for most.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks king_magic, at least is a start, and because is Opensource it can evolve with the needs of the people.
It's really a great idea. It's something I didn't know I wanted until I saw it. My (admittedly potentially naive view) is that it has the potential to simplify many things in the mapping/shipping world - it's so specific. No messy address ambiguity. I also love the idea of an embeddable "Xaddress badge" (e.g. this image: http://bit.ly/2biI3YY ) - unless of course I misunderstood what that is. Maybe you could work the…
Greate idea!, Xaddress generate a short code, you can use all of them if you want to.
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/3354868/17262858/...
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#45My current location is 5308 AFRAID ANUS. Might be best to exclude ANUS from the word list.
Mine is 8763 UNTIL DICK, word list definitely needs a review.
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#46My current location is 5308 AFRAID ANUS. Might be best to exclude ANUS from the word list.
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#48This is genius! Seems like HN killed it though. The demo is not working anymore, probably rate limits have been hit.
Edit: seems to work on the default location but not when I move the maps to Slovenia.
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#49Yet another location encoding. Why not MapCode[1]? >Designed to be used in low tech environments What are supposed uses of encoded lattitude and longitude in "low tech environments", other than simple transfer? 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapCode
Mapcode is great, compact and precise.
Xaddress looks more like a traditional address so it might be easier to fit in , also gives you a hint of where the address is located, and is clear how to encode and decode.
But at the end of the day both are tools that might work depending on your needs.
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#50What makes this better than actual coordinates?
I can easily find numeric coordinates on a map, without any special tables or computations.
I can immediately see if two numeric coordinates are close just by looking at the numbers.
Very many people understand how to use standard numeric coordinates.